Berenice I

Berenice I (340 BC-279 BC) was Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 305 BC to 282 BC as the wife of Ptolemy I Soter.

Biography
Berenice was born in Eordaea, Macedonia in 340 BC, the grand-niece of Antipater. In 325 BC, she married the obscure military officer Philip, and she gave birth to Magas of Cyrene and Antigone of Epirus (who married Pyrrhus of Epirus). Her first husband died in 318 BC, and she became a lady-in-waiting to her mother's first cousin Eurydice of Egypt, the wife of Ptolemy I Soter. In 317 BC, Ptolemy married Berenice, who became the mother of Arsinoe II and Ptolemy II Philadelphus. She died in 279 BC, and her son and daughter later married and became the rulers of Egypt.